Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.144. Dedication to Aphrodite, from Temple

Description: Large blue marble laver partly reconstructed from fragments (2.75 across cord) with central boss (0.87 across cord).

Text: Inscribed on the boss. There is a pair, broken, and too damaged to show whether it also was inscribed.

Letters: Very worn; 0.095.

Date: Hadrianic, 117-138 CE (lettering, archaeological context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: Atrium

Original location: Perhaps Hadrianic Baths

Last recorded location: Findspot (1980)

Interpretive

[..]Λ̣Υ[.]Ε̣
Τ̣Ι[.]Ω̣Ι̣[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
τοὺς δύω̣
λ̣ο̣υτῆρας
5ἀνέθηκε

Diplomatic

[··][·].
[·]..[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
ΤΟΥΣΔΥ.
..ΥΤΗΡΑΣ
5ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ

Apparatus

1-2: The name and presumably patronymic are too badly damaged to yield sense.

Translation

[---] dedicated the two lavers.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Temple 7

Publication: Mentioned by Reynolds, 1990 39. Published: IAph2007 1.144, whence Wilson, 2016 2.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)